A new rugged rotary Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) has been developed. It can be used for environmental remote sensing and monitoring of chemical processes. Both single pixel and mosaic imaging configurations have been built and tested. The continuous rotary scan of the “Turbo FT” allows operation without the laser reference of a conventional FTS, and it has been demonstrated to deliver 30 to 360 spectral scans per second and 1 cm-1 resolution, with excellent lineshape. A new “space frame” version of the interferometer, with excellent mechanical and thermal stability, was field tested in both airborne and ground systems during the year 2000, with good results. The interferometer for this instrument is palm sized, and weighs 20 oz. It is totally sealed from the environment, and can be mounted, with its drive electronics, into a temperature stabilized enclosure for outside remote sensing applications For industrial applications, it can be used on-line or off-line, in conjunction with fiber optics, to measure and/or control multiple process lines. With the appropriate optics and detector set, the wavelength range can be adjusted from 1.0 to 25.0 micrometers. The resolution is variable from 1 to 8 cm-1.

Various processors, data acquisition boards, and software have been used in the development, including the Labview package from National Instruments. Custom software for acquisition, display, and storage is being developed in summer 2001. The data acquisition system can be tailored for the speed and number of pixels required for the application. The current commercially available hardware being used can support up to 16 pixels at up to 100 scans per second.

Abstract
A quantitative analysis of Iron in flour via Xenemetrix EDXRF Laboratory Spectrometer System was performed by model EX-3600M. The minimum detection limit for Fe in flour matrix was determined to 0.8 ppm at 3 sigma.
Objective
To design an easy method by using EDXRF technique for quick and convenient measurements of Fe in flour at the level of tens of ppm.
Background
EDXRF is a fast and non-destructive technique that can quantify any type of samples in solid, powder or liquid form within a few...

This article reviews these sources and proposes a scheme for measuring and quantifying the amounts of metals in their source materials used to bind asphalt used in making roads.
The use of bench top EDXRF to characterize binders before blending them into asphalt cements is possible because the metal values are in the 10s – 1000s of ppms and are readily monitored.
The data generated in this study was collected on a Xenemetrix X-Cite Benchtop using the Analytix software package which has both empirical and...